Dr. Leith Stewart

ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON
BSC M.B. ChB. (Stell) F.C.S.
(S.A.) (Orth.)

 
Dr. Leith Stewart

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ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON
BSC M.B. ChB. (Stell) F.C.S.
(S.A.) (Orth.)
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Dr. Leith Stewart

Orthopaedic & Arthroplasty Surgeon
BSC M.B. ChB. (Stell) F.C.S. (S.A.) (Orth.)
 

Birmingham Hip Resurfacing Operation: This video is a full and graphic presentation of a Birmingham Hip Resurfacing procedure. For those evaluating this procedure as compared to conventional hip replacement, it may provide useful information in your decision making process. However, the graphic nature of the video may not be suitable for everyone. 

Back Row:  Tony Holman (Natal), Paul Logan (Natal), Rob Pullen (S.T.), Alan McCarthy (Natal), Giles Bonnet (Natal), Alan Cowley (S.T.), 
                     Wayne Graham (E.P.), Albert Garcia (S.T.)
Front Row:  Peter Visagie (S.T.), Lindsay Reid-Ross (W.P.), Brian Edwards (Coach), Mandy Yachad (S.T.) (Vice Captain), Gary McLeod (Manager)
                      Leith Stewart (W.P.) (Captain), Brian Hibbert (Assistant Coach), Trevor Madsen (Natal), Piet van Blerk (E.P.).
 
4          Cape Times      Monday August 21 2006                            NEWS
 
 
US doctors in city to learn innovative hip surgery techniques

Karen Breytenbach

TWO American orthopaedic surgeons have been taught an innovative hip surgery technique by a local surgeon Leith Stewart, an orthopaedic surgeon at Claremont Hospital (South Afrrica), last week demonstrate the Birmingham Hip Resurfacing (BHR) procedure to his guests, Ian Kovack from Kansas and Donald Polakoff from New Jersey.                                       

One patient was a professional golfer in her 30s and the other an active woman in her 60s. Both were told they would be up and on crutches within two days, instead of six weeks if normal surgery was done.
    Both will also be able to drive, cycle and swim within three weeks instead of six.
    Stewart, an avid cyclist and snowboarder, has been performing the procedure for six years.  He had a BHR performed on  his left hip about
  • This article was published in the The Cape Times

four years ago, with great success.                                            Since 1997 the procedure, developed by two British surgeons as a bone conserving alternative to total hip replacement, has been used on about 51 000 patients in the UK, Germany, Australia and South Africa.
The procedure was only recently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, on condition that surgeons receive training.

While total hip replacement has yielded good results in elderly inactive people, the procedure has been less successful in young and active people, who respond better to resurfacing.
    Hip resurfacing is the replacement of the cartilage covering the surfaces of the ball at the end of the thigh bone (femur) and the cup-shaped cavity (acetabulum) into which it fits, with cobalt chrome, into which bone grows" in weeks".
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Dr. Leith Stewart

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ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON
BSC M.B. ChB. (Stell) F.C.S.
(S.A.) (Orth.)

Physical address

Life Claremont Hospital
8th Floor
Room 806
Main Road
Claremont
7700

Telephone

021 683 6037

Fax

021 683 6633

Email

drstewart@kingsley.co.za

Map

Life Claremont Hospital

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